Sorry :X

Imagine if you elected your monarch rather than them inheriting the position. The parliamentary elections take place as normal and there's a separate election for head of state. That's how it works in Ireland's president, so I'd imagine it must be similar in France judging by what you were trying to explain without properly understanding it.

​@@eamonahern7495. Your explanation goes in the right direction, but our system is even worse than that: the French president actually has a few strong legal powers (may dissolve French "house of commons", military leader...) and is the leader of his political formation, not the prime minister. Result: you have a semi-absolute monarch, plus a government & parliament of yes-men and idolizers. Politics would function properly when the majority party in parliament was different from the president's party, except a constitutional revision made that virtually impossible in 2000.

@@nehylen5738 Oh I see. Our President doesn't have that kind of power.

If Ligier used JEAN-PIERRE BLASTOISE instead they would have dominated the season fr

It’s like trying to cheat at monopoly and still losing.

Mostly a matter of being based in France. Especially as the sport evolved, the engineering talent was in Italy or the UK

This was my immediate thought too - he had SO MUCH backing through the 1980s. The JS19 of 1982 was the start of the downturn - it was a ground-effect car like most of the rest of the grid, but the FIA outlawed the use of the skirts behind the centreline of the rear-wheel, which nerfed the car's handling. Laffite had also done very well in the JS17 and 17B cars (designed by Doucarouge, who was fired in 1981), while the JS19 (designed by newly retired race-winning driver Jean-Pierre Jabouille and Michel Beaujon) was not nearly as competitive a car as its predecessor. By 1983 with the JS21, they had lost both of their major 1982 drivers in Cheever and Laffite and now had Jarier and the then-rookie Boesel and the turbocharged cars dominated the championship. Rosberg was the top-scoring non-turbo driver (25 of his 27 points came with the DFV-powered FW08C) and finished 5th in the Championship after winning it the previous year. The 1984 JS23 had the Renault V6 turbo engine being used by Lotus, but they had Hesnault (very inexperienced) and the quick-but-erratic de Cesaris. who scored points in 2 races, finished outside the points in 3 others and DNF'd 9 times. Hesnault finished 5 times, all outside the points. Michelin, their tyre provider, also left the sport at the end of the season. 1985 saw the JS25 with the returning Laffite partnering de Cesaris, who was fired before the end of the season (the famous "I can no longer afford to employ this man" quote), replaced him with Phillipe Streiff, the two managed to get 2nd and 3rd at the final race to put a gloss on the season but Streiff collided with Laffite in the process and nearly cost the team those points. 1986 saw the JS27 with Arnoux and the 42-year-old Laffite (oldest driver on the grid at the time) initially driving until Laffite's career was ended in a double-leg-breaking crash at Brands Hatch - this event saw the FIA making it mandatory that the drivers' feet be placed behind the front axle of the car. The car suffered during the 2nd part of the 1986 season due to a lack of development - the first 10 races of the season saw the team score 28 points, the last 6 races saw Alliot scoring just 1 point. Laffite ended up taking 6 of Ligier's 9 wins (the other race winners were Depailler, Pironi and Panis).

@@camillaquelladegliaggettiv4303 Oh there was plenty of talent in France that he squandered. He was an incredible asshole and would hurl abuse (sometimes in the literal sense) if things weren't going right for the team.

@@Durbanite2010 My controversial opinion is that the JS21 isn't nearly as bad as it's results suggested. If it had a turbo engine it would have been able to challenge for podiums if not wins. Ligier did consider the Honda but passed on it (bad move IMO.)

Matra chose not to enter their own Matra Sports team for the 1969 F1 season (apart from a single race). Ken Tyrrell's team entered as Matra International was their sole focus that year. It ran a Ford -Cosworth DFV engine rather than Matra's V12. Ken Tyrrell had been a Matra customer for a few years in F2. He and Matra had entered odd F1 races with an F2 car. In 1968 both entered F1 properly. Tyrrell team entered as Matra International (rather than Tyrrell), alongside Matra's own Matra Sport team (both only ran a single car for most of the season). Matra Sport began the season with last year's F2 car with a Ford 4-cylinder engine of only 1.6L. Tyrrell had a modified version with the Ford DFV. At the second race Matra Sport debuted the new chassis (designed for the DFV) which Tyrrell would use for the rest of the season. (Tyrrell did not enter this race.) At the third race Matra Sport debuted another new car, this time powered by their new V12 engine. (This was registered as a different constructor for the constructors title - just Matra.) Alas it was somewhat unreliable (likely a factor in Matra's decision to not enter with their V12 for 1969). But Matra didn't give up on the V12 and came back with it in 1970. They asked Tyrrell to use it also, but Tyrrell were heavily reliant on Ford sponsorship. So they parted ways with Matra and constructed their own chassis.

Didnt ocon win in a french car(alpine)

The Alpine team based the UK in Oxfordshire, it's the old Toleman/Benetton/21st century Renault team. Renault won 2 drivers/constructors doubles in 2005 & 2006, but the chassis was designed and constructed in the UK.

​@@Le_equitabliste You could say it was a French owned (though with global sponsorship, that might be dubious. I honestly couldn't comment on that), or a French registered car. I think that might be accurate but I do stand to be corrected.

​@@Le_equitablistealpine is only french in branding and engine. The rest is built in the uk

So many fingers in so many pies.

And none of them are left.

​@@AidanMillward arguably Benetton is still here, through team enstone

Apparently, the Larrousse team was also trying to bring a relatively unknown petrol company from Malaysia at the time, called Petronas, into F1. And Petronas did enter F1 - with the Sauber team, which lasted through 2009. After that, they went on to sponsor the Mercedes team and the rest is history.

Man, Renault and reliability, what happened?

Warwick and Tambay could answer that!!

Warwick and Tambay could answer that!! Virtually every race of the 1984 F1 season saw them retire after being in a good position, to get at least a place on the podium. Both drivers suffered awful reliability with Renault.

The high number of gear changes around Monaco arguably stressed engines

The Newton joke 😂😂😂😂😂

@@periklaskyriakidis6064 Arnoux also blew the engine deal with Alfa because he compared the engine to dog food or used food.

Yeah this is more to do with Guy being bezzies with Mitterrand than anything else.

Yeah Ligier is great for how team-politics or intra-team politics can be a messy business. Especially when Guy destroys the team base because he wants them to do things another way in order to win in 1979 after their great start.

The sliding skirt directive also fucked over the JS19 - it’s rear end was required to be sealed.

Ah son of a bitch I went through everything this time.

@@AidanMillward 😅 Sorry, I have a modellkit of that car in the making, so I noticed it immediatly.

Audio is the easy bit. It’s the visuals that can be hard work.

Mitterrand wasn’t term limited as the constitution wasn’t ratified to impose two term limits until 2008.

This is a video in itself if I can find more details

Yeah there were discussions on BBC between Murray Walker and Jonathan Palmer about Briatore's acquisition of Ligier and how this meant that Benetton would seemingly have access to Ligier's Renault engines and Jonathan Palmer accosted Ligier for doing a bad job with the Renault engine when they only had to look at the Williams team and then say that with the help of Briatore and Walkinshaw, things would be done differently. Also Aguri Suzuki had thought that he had a contract for the whole year of 1995 such was the driver merry-go-round at Ligier in 1994. When he learnt that he was to share second driver duties with Martin Brundle, Suzuki was outraged and thought hard about what he should do but reluctantly accepted his role as second driver for 5GP that were the deemed the fly-away races. Meanwhile Brundle began his commentary duties on both BBC and Eurosport. You can hear the Argentinian GP on Eurosport where the tandem of Ben Edwards, John Watson and Brundle do the commentary. The amount of machinations going on at the time is fascinating. It's why today's F1 is too tame. Too PR friendly, not enough bastards!

Briatore lied to both Brundle and Suzuki.

@@palm92 It's Briatore so it doesn't surprise me - the guy was an absolute tosser. He may have been in charge for Team Enstone's glory years but he was despicable even before we take Crashgate into consideration.

@@heliumtrophy I agree I’m just surprised as to how brazen it was.

Great movie! There was a scene testing the GT 40.

Ringo got by with the help tho.

This has been pointed out.

The 79-80 cars were legitimately fast - but had issues (especially the 80 car) with generating so much downforce it would fatigue the car's wheels and suspension. Remember they had a bunch of really weird tire and suspension failures in 1980.

You won’t like the other one I wear then. Bruins 🐻

Yeah but I think it's best to give that a bit of time because you know there will be a certain fanbase that will say that he's profiting from a driver that's just passed away. In a month or two would be best.

Still haven’t done Moss tbf.

He was building France’s motorways. Those contracts would have been massive money. Plus racing was a little bit cheaper then.

Opened the video to answer this, got an advert for Alpine. They’re listening.

Alpine has racing heritage, Ligier has a history of failure.

It would've been nice if both could've stayed in the game. Hell I wished Prost's time as team owner hadn't gone south so quickly. I feel he just didn't get the backing or he was too naive in the people he had put his trust in. It almost comes back to Panis' leg break. Or at least I feel it had unfortunate repercussions for the team as a whole.

@@heliumtrophy I really had hope for Prost especially considering the deal they did with Ferrari(rebadged Acer) for engines, and considering the relative success Sauber had with the same formula at the time

Worst, no Underperforming yes